Taft Street Temple Drive and West Walker Street appear at top. View a detailed profile of the structure 216053 including further data and descriptions in the Emporis database.
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. By the early twenty-first century although still owned by Harris County this two- and three-story brick building set above a raised basement was a wreck. The first public health hospital in Houston Jefferson Davis Hospital was superseded in 1937 when a newer city-county hospital of the same name was built on Allen Parkway. As there was no widespread removal of graves from the site the.
The old hospital site at Elder and Girard Streets continued to be used for related medical purposes including a psychiatric hospital juvenile detention wards food stamp distribution center Cenikor and. In 1937 a new hospital on Buffalo Drive now Allen Parkway took the name Jefferson Davis Hospital This site then called Old Jefferson Davis Hospital served multiple purposes including a psychiatric hospital juvenile detention ward food. Jefferson Davis Hospital a prominent public charity hospital in Houston operated from 1925 to 1989.
The facility was demolished in 1999. Houston 1101 elder street jefferson davis hospital this significant medical facility completed in 1924 and operated jointly by the city of houston and harris county was built atop the 1840 houston city cemetery which was active until the 1880s. Jefferson Davis Hospital December 1937.
163 South Tallahassee Street. Find this Pin and more on Place - Houston by SheilaG. Houston Texass old Jefferson Davis Hospital was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration PWA project during the Great Depression.
In 1939 the county opened a new hospital also called Jefferson Davis on Allen Parkway and the old facility started its gradual decline into ruin - from psychiatric hospital to juvenile. 1801 Allen Parkway Houston TX United States. The PWA supplied a 1003500 grant toward the eventual 2388686 total cost of the project.
Richard Carson Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 50 of 78 Spectators line up along Allen Parkway to watch. 1940 detail nurses home 1937 Photo courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center Houston Public Library. For years a deserted vandalized building caught the attention of motorists driving past it on I-45 near downtown.
The building on Elder continued to be used for various purposes until 1985 and still stood in the 2020s. Jefferson Davis Hospital 1801 Allen Parkway demolished Completed. Jefferson Davis Hospital Elder Street Lofts1101 Elder Street.
Buffalo Drive now Allen Parkway runs diagonal at top right. At Houstons Jeff Davis Hospital where more than 10000 babies are born every year charity idealism and bureaucracy confront the ancient instincts of. Work occurred between March 1936 and December 1937.
Jointly operated by the City of Houston and Harris County Jefferson Davis was the first publicly-owned hospital to accept low-income patients however it. Structural Types - highrise. Jefferson Davis Hospital is a 12-story high-rise building in Houston Texas USA.
JDH served as a charity hospital from 1924 until 1938 when the new Jefferson Davis Hospital was built on Allen Parkway now demolished. It has at times stood vacant housed a venereal disease clinic psychiatric hospital juvenile detention ward food stamp distribution center Cenikor drug alcohol rehab and served as records storage for the Harris County. Most widely held works by Tex Jefferson Davis Hospital Houston Historical records search and archeological subsurface testing for the Jefferson Davis Hospital site at 1801 Allen Parkway Drive Houston Harris County Texas by Richard B Mahoney Book.
48 of 78 49 of 78 Implosion of Jefferson Davis Hospital on Allen Parkway in 1999. It first opened on Elder Street and later moved to Buffalo Drive now Allen Parkway in 1938. Many undoubtedly were curious about what this once-stately structure had been and in a city slow to preserve its past were puzzled that it was still standing.
Completed in 1937 on Allen Parkway and also named the Jefferson Davis Hospital demolished 1999. 1801 Allen Parkway demolished Completed. Finn and Joseph Finger above façade c.
Jefferson Davis Hospital 1801 Allen Parkway demolished Completed. 7 1960 the Houston Chronicle noted that the hospitals outpatient clinic had seen a record 1335 patients one day in November. Finn and Joseph Finger above façade c.
Building Uses - hospital. SheilaG Place - Houston. In 1937 a newer Jefferson Davis Hospital opened on Allen Parkway and the old hospital for decades housed various county offices.
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